David Mohler Quotes
I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class.
Reacting to his being denied a permit to carry a handgun by the New York City police:
David Mohler, Orthopeadic Surgeon, Quoted in Manhattan, Inc., April 1989
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In earlier years it was common practice to use undercover agents to hand out disinformation pamphlets and false rumors to confuse and diffuse crowds gathering for demonstrations. The policy was abandoned. In 2006 a September 11 report surfaced {589485} where the practice had been recommended to be resurrected. The official spokesman denied that it had, but worded the denial in a way that led many to believe that the practice had been resumed. Note that he did not say that non-police officers did not do this for the police department. That left the door open for non police officer agents of the department to spread disinformation at the behest of the police department. It employed thousands of civilian, non officer personnel, and always had many paid informants and agents.
Alexie, an American Indian, studied wrote about the phenomenon whereby the Indians who were brutalized and attacked by whites with modern weapons and other technological advantages, in the process of defending themselves and their way of life became oppressors to whites in many situations where they could dominate a local scene. Likewise, the Israelis, who were totally oppressed in the Middle East for years and dominated by the more numerous Arabs with over a dozen established national armies attacking the Jewish civilian population when Israel first became a state. However the Jews survived and each time the Arabs attacked and further oppressed the Israelis, the Jews became stronger until at some point the became oppressors of many of the Arabs. The oppressors became the oppressed and vica versa.
The Federalists had a majority of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency with George Washington. The establishment of respect for minority views had not yet been established as a tradition. The Anti-Federalists, in order to prevent the Federalists from imposing their own legislation in all fields, used every parliamentary maneuver and delaying tactic. The public, after a few years of the Federalist high-handedness, replaced them with the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Federalists were so badly beaten and unpopular that the party was destroyed, never to rise again.
